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Edith A Moravcsik

What is universal about typology?

1. Introduction

The study of language typology has often been viewed as a rather special endeavor with few if any similarities to other pursuits within linguistics and outside it. Here are three such oppositions.

a. Language-typological generalizations are different from single-language rules.

b. Language-typological generalizations are different from theoretical claims.

c. Language-typological generalizations are different from explanatory principles: they describe but do not explain.

Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1430-0532
Volume: 11, 07/2007
Pages: 27 - 41

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